Improvement in apparatus for sausage-stuffing and other purposes



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Ahparatus for Sausage Stuffing and other Purposes.

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NO. 141,45], 7 Patented August5,l873.

ATEN'I OFFICE.

' JAMES A. MOORE, OF BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT TO ALFRED J. MOORE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR SAUSAGESTUFFING AND OTHER PURPOSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,451, dated August 5, 1873; application filed March 8, 1873.

To all whomt't may concern: Y

Be it known that I, JAMES A. MOORE, of

Bethlehem, in the county of Northampton and 7 tical section of the same in a plane indicated by the line a: 00, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a similar section of the machine arranged as a lard-press;

Fig. 4, a top view of the machinearranged as a lard-press.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

The working parts of the machine are mounted on a suitable bench or stand, A, upon which are uprights a a, with a crosshead, I), at the upper ends thereof. The means of applying the power for forcing the sausage-meat into the, prepared intestines consists of a crank, 13, on a shaft, a, mounted on the uprights a a, on which shaft is a pinion, d, which gears into a cog-wheel, f, on another shaft, g, mounted also on the said uprights; and on this shaft is a pinion, h, which gears into a rack, t', on a rod or bar, 70, of a piston or follower,0, that forces the sausage-meat down in acylinder, D. From the bottom of this cylinder an aperture through the bench A leads down into a dischargingspout, E, formed, as shown in Fig. 1, to receive the ends of the intestines .to be stuffed. The piston-rod k is guided at the bottom by the piston O itself, sliding up and down in its cylinder, and at thetop by a sleeve, -l, attached to or mounted on the shaft 9 opposite to the pinion h, which gears into its rack t. In this sleeve the piston-rod and rack slide freely up and down, the rack being kept in gear with its pinion thereby. The crossbar b also prevents the piston-rod from turning over beyond its perpendicular position in one direction, while in the opposite direction there is nothing to prevent the piston-rod from falling over as soon as the piston O israised out of its open-top cylinder D, so that it tilts over automatically intoa position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, out of the way, leaving the cylinder clear for putting in another supply of sausage-meat as soon as the previous batch has been disposed of. When ready for pressing again, the pistonrod is simply raised into a vertical position, and the piston-then drops into place without further care.

In order to change the machine from a sausage-stutter to a lard-press all that is required is to remove the cylinder D, and put in its place a cylinder, G,.Figs. 3 and 4, somewhat larger in diameter than the former cyl-- inder, so as to receive inside thereof another cylinder, H, of just the right diameter to receivethe piston G, and leave a space between the two cylinders. The change is made from the cylinder D to -the cylinder G, and vice versa, by simply removing three screws, m m m, which attach either cylinder to the bench, and reinserting them through the flanges n n n of the other cylinder. The inner cylinder H has a close bottom, a little raised from the bench A, and has small holes 11 1; through its sides, to allow the lard to run into the outer cylinder G, from which it flows, through notches r r in the bottom edge or flange of the inner cylinder, to the aperture through; I

the bench that leads to the spoutE.

The machine is not only extremely simple and convenient, but works very easily, stead: ily, and rapidly.

.The pressure can readily be varied between thelimits of fifty and three hundred pounds, and itis never liable to burst the intestines. The cylinders and spout are best made of galvanized sheet iron, the gearing of castiron, and the bench and framework of wood.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

' 1. The tilting pistonrod k, arranged and. operating substantially as and for the purpose herein specified. v

2.. A sausage-stutter and lard-press, composed substantially of a bench, A, cylinders D G H, piston G with its rack 'i and tiltingrod k, and driving-gearing,substantially as herein specified.

Specification signed by me this 19th day of October, 1872.

Witnesses: JAS. A. MOORE.

PETER SoHRAN'rz, W. R. REIOHARD. 1 

